Maybe you saw him waving from a float in the World Series parade. Maybe you grew up watching the low-budget commercials in which Mack, surrounded by furniture, whipped crumpled bills from his back pocket and did a little jump and promised Gallery Furniture could save you money. Pretty much everyone in Houston knows Mattress Mack because of his work. “Maybe it’s because he just works all the time. “I don't think that, socially, he feels that comfortable,” said Linda, his wife of 40-plus years.
In the words of his wife and daughter, Jim McIngvale - the man behind the TV persona - is not. In his own words, Mattress Mack is a huckster, a self-promoter, a man born “under the astrological sign of P.T. Patrick’s Day parade and who filed a high-profile lawsuit seeking records in search of possible improprieties in Harris County’s 2022 election.
The Mattress Mack who served as grand marshal for Houston’s St. The Mattress Mack who went viral with an expletive-laden rant after an Astros World Series game the Mattress Mack who was subsequently rendered into the chains-and-bandana-wearing “Gangster Mack” meme. The jump-in-the-air-to-save-you-money Mattress Mack, the multimillion-dollar sports betting Mattress Mack, the Mattress Mack who fake-fought Muhammad Ali and made a movie with Chuck Norris.
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